A critical analysis of the value of simultaneous inferior petrosal sinus sampling in Cushing's disease and the occult ectopic adrenocorticotropin syndrome

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 487-492

  Kaltsas, G A ^a   Giannulis, M G ^a   Newell Price, J D C ^a   Dacie, J E ^a   Thakkar, C ^b   Afshar, F ^a   Monson, J P ^a   Grossman, A B ^a,b   Besser, G M ^a   Trainer, P J ^a  

^a ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DESMOPRESSIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUSHING DISEASE; CUSHING SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECTOPIC CORTICOTROPIN PRODUCTION; FEMALE; GANGLIONEUROMA; HUMAN; HYPERCORTISOLISM; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NELSON SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ACTH SYNDROME, ECTOPIC; ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CHILD; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CUSHING SYNDROME; DEAMINO ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PETROSAL SINUS SAMPLING; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SHEEP;

IPS; OVIS;

EID: 0033044934     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.84.2.487     Document Type: Article

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